This training day is for counsellors and other talking therapists to learn about the actions of prescribed drugs in treating depresion and anxiety and how that can and does affect the counselling process.

In this workshop, you will learn how the drugs work in the system, which will be explained throughly by Camilia Flomen, a pharmacist who has been working in mental health for over 20 years.

You will also learn how this presents in the client and how to maintain a therapeutic working relationship while the client adjusts to going onto, or coming off of medication. This will be explained by Vivienne Costello, a counsellor who specialises in depression, anxiety and OCD and who also has trained and worked as a pharmacy technician until three years ago

About the host

Camilia Floman is a clinical pharmacist who has worked for over 20 years in mental health settings and she taught nursing staff at Bournemouth University regarding the action and uses of mediation. Vivienne Costello is a counsellor who worked in addictions and is now working in private practice specialising in depression, anxiety and OCD.